A Kodiak brown bear. (Photo by Lisa Hupp/USFWS) Kayla Desroches/KMXT City residents have turned to Facebook a lot over the last month to report bear sightings. Alaska Department of Fish and Game area biologist Nate Svoboda says sometimes citizen reports give the impression of a busy bear season. But actually, he says, numbers are down compared to previous years. There …

On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with the director and cast of the 1960s comedy play, “It Happens Every Summer.”

Screencap of rescue video. Coast guard hoisting crewman. (Courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard) Kayla Desroches/KMXT Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak opened its forward operating location in Cold Bay last week. The annual assignment shortens the response time to incidents at sea, like one that happened Thursday. According to a Coast Guard press release, a crewman on a vessel southeast of …

The Kodiak Island Borough School District Board of Education. (Photo by Kayla Desroches/KMXT) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough School District Board of Education touched on school issues across the island, from special education to the recent lockdown, at its regular meeting last night. During his report, school district superintendent Larry LeDoux said student enrollment is down overall, which also …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alutiiq Museum will hold a date night with danger Friday. The annual event preps people to survive a hypothetical apocalypse using Alutiiq skills and objects. One activity calls on couples to exercise their hand-eye coordination. Events specialist Christina Thompson says participants will learn to use a spear thrower called an atlatl. “If you can imagine, you know …

The Thelma C. (Photo courtesy of Kodiak Maritime Museum Thelma C Collection) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Maritime Museum has settled on the shelter design for its future Thelma C exhibit. The refurbished seiner Thelma C is one of the fleet of vessels built directly after the 1964 earthquake and tsunami. The museum fixed it up back in 2012. Museum executive …

Sockeye running up the Kenai River to spawn. (Photo by Kentaro Yasui / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alaska Board of Fisheries has rejected an agenda change request that would have moved up the discussion of a Cook Inlet claim on sockeye salmon in the Kodiak management area. That’s according to Kodiak resident Duncan Fields, who was at the board’s work …

The intersection of the Sockeye run and the Chinook run. (Photo by Ingrid Taylar / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT Concern over poor king salmon runs across the state drew a panel of fisheries experts together at a recent meeting in Anchorage. The event focused mainly on a better understanding of the science behind population declines. Panelists addressed the elements that play …

Baranov Museum. (Photo by J. Stephen Conn / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT Wednesday marked the 150th anniversary of the transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States. Baranov Museum collections manager Michael Bach says many people have referred to the 1867 purchase as Seward’s Folly. “It was viewed as a mistake and there’s contention because at that time it wasn’t …

Coming up this week on the Alaska Fisheries Report, Kodiak’s cod season could have been better. One of the challenges fishermen faced was a shrinking cod population. Also, Bristol Bay sees another drop in the total allowable catch for red king crab, tanner crab, and snow crab in the 2017 – 2018 season. We had help from KDLG’s Dave Bendinger …